Tzvetan Quotes

#1. Men want a challenge, but they want a challenge they can win.

Whitney Gaskell

#2. We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.

Tzvetan Todorov

#3. It takes women to bring men to their senses

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#4. There shouldn't be budget problems. There is so much money that goes untapped. If every athlete gave 5% of what they earned, there wouldn't be any budget problems.

George Foreman

#5. I dont want to just play gay characters, ... I think it would get boring to play the same thing again and again and again.

Rupert Everett

#6. The fear of barbarians is what risks making us barbarians.

Tzvetan Todorov

#7. On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.

Bob Dylan

#8. Life cannot withstand death, but memory is gaining in its struggle against nothingness.

Tzvetan Todorov

#9. Time and chance. The twin offspring of destiny. That wondrous branching of our fates.

Carol Shields

#10. If there is a nice road to your destination, you are lucky; if there isn't any, then you are even luckier because you will have the chance to be a road-creator!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. It is no longer necessary to resort to the power of a state in order to inflict heavy losses on your enemy, since a few highly motivated individuals with even a minimum of financial resources are enough."Hostile Forces" have completely changed their appearance.

Tzvetan Todorov

#12. I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.

Rudyard Kipling

#13. Rule of criticism: only attend to the shape, and the purpose will manifest itself.

Mason Cooley

#14. Any language is a supreme achievement of a uniquely human collective genius, as divine and endless a mystery as a living organism." A

Steven Pinker

#15. Listen to your intuition and the quiet promptings of your heart.

Bryant McGill

#16. For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent. That is something of which we are all quite capable.

Tzvetan Todorov

#17. When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existence of literature implies that it cannot be replaced by non-literature

Tzvetan Todorov

#18. The thirst for vengeance did not wait for Islam to appear in the world, and the appeal to the law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is universal.

Tzvetan Todorov